Master of Arts in English

Advisor:
Gwen Tarbox,
Room 618, Sprau Tower

The Master of Arts in English provides advanced study of literature, literary history, literary theory, and other literary concerns. A student desiring to enter the program should present a thirty-hour undergraduate major with a grade-point average of at least 3.0 and a sample of critical writing about literature. Applicants must take the Graduate Record Examinations, both the General Test and the Subject Test in Literature in English, and forward their scores to the Department of English.

For more detailed information and for an application form, write to the graduate director or see the department’s pages on the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://www.wmich.edu/english.

Program Requirements

At least twenty hours of the undergraduate major must be in courses in literature; no more than fifteen of the thirty should be at the freshman-sophomore level. Applicants lacking an undergraduate major but who have at least 20 hours of work in English with a substantial number of courses in literature and who are otherwise judged eligible may be granted admission to the program on condition that they remedy perceived deficiencies in preparation by taking some undergraduate courses as prerequisites.

Required courses in the program are the following:

ENGL 6150 - Literary Criticism Credits: 3 hrs.
ENGL 6300 - Introduction to Graduate Studies Credits: 3 hrs.
ENGL 6400 - The Nature of Poetry Credits: 3 hrs.
ENGL 6900 - Scholarship and Writing in the Profession Credits: 3 hrs.

Additional Courses

The additional courses needed to complete a coherent thirty-three hour program are selected in consultation with the graduate director. On admission, students should consult with the advisor at the earliest opportunity concerning their program of study.